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October 2011
Featured Articles
Cover Story
Tapped out
Drug shortages send hospitalists scrambling
The drugs in limited or non-existent supply can vary across the country, but the number of medications affected has steadily increased, in some cases undermining patient care.
Your Practice
Improving handoffs from the ED
Strategies for smoothing relations with emergency department physicians
Just because disagreement between hospitalists and emergency physicians is natural, it's not necessarily unavoidable.
Obesity complicates diagnosis
Latest research, equipment can help
The rising prevalence of obesity has created health dangers for patients and new challenges in diagnostic testing for hospitalists.
Military Medicine
Medical missions in Iraq help train next generation of doctors
A training program allows recent Iraqi medical school graduates to shadow and assist U.S. physicians in Baghdad.
Success Story
Nurses turn evidence into action
A care management department at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, helps incorporate new evidence and guidelines into daily practice.
Q&A: Terry A. Clyburn, MD
Fall prevention falls short on evidence base
Surgeon suspects studies too small to show results
A review of existing fall prevention methods found little conclusive medical evidence to support them.
Mindful Medicine
Thinking about our thinking as physicians
Drs. Groopman and Hartzband reflect on their Mindful Medicine column and look toward the future.
Perspectives
Letter from the Editor
Some of this issue's topics include drug shortages, ED handoffs and coding for prolonged evaluation and management.
Letter to the Editor
A reader debates “The Hospital of the Future.”
Newman's Notions: The wisdom of teens
Our editorial advisor learns a thing or two about diagnosis from an unusual source: his teenage son.
From China to the U.S.—and back
My road to a U.S. clinical rotation
A student recounts the obstacles he faced when preparing to study in the U.S.
From the Blog: No sleep till Brooklyn
A veteran hospitalist reflects on work hour limits for residents.
Practical Genomics: Cancer's cure is all about the trees
Should we classify cancers by their tissue of origin, or their mutation of origin?
Your Practice
Coding Corner
Prolonged service proficiency
The coding and billing of prolonged services depend on the face-to-face time spent with the patient over and above the average.
Clinical Medicine
Test Yourself
MKSAP quiz on emergency department care
These cases and commentary, which address emergency department care, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
FDA Update
New blood thinner, HIV combo drug approved
Details on approval of ticagrelor and more.
Research Update
Recent Research
Smoking cessation before surgery, dalteparin versus unfractionated heparin, and more.
In the News
Treating hypertension in the elderly, predicting ICD complication risk, and more.
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- Updated guidelines released on antithrombotic therapy, thrombosis prevention
- Type of neurological deficit not associated with outcomes in mild stroke
Cartoon Caption Contest
This issue's winning cartoon caption was submitted by Bridget M. McCandless, MD, FACP, from Kansas City, Mo. Thanks to all who voted!
"I didn't think this is what you meant by balloon angioplasty."
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